Road infrastructure

Delivering to shops and homes in a city centre can often lead to drivers navigating narrow streets and unloading goods across busy pavements during peak hours. Safety of vulnerable road users, such as cyclists and pedestrians, is a key priority for town planners, with trials of segregated cycle lanes, Dutch-style roundabouts and 20mph zones emerging across UK cities.

Make sure you sign-up today to receive the latest news and information about the inaugural Freight in the City expo this autumn. Online expressions of interest are flooding in daily from representatives at local authorities, freight operators, retailers and academic […]

Nottingham City Council has launched a consultation into a major infrastructure project that will see the creation of a new, segregated cycle superhighway to improve access into and through the city centre. The Western Corridor is a new cycle route […]

Early adoption of wireless electric vehicle recharging within the freight sector is a key ingredient to the future roll-out of ‘charge-as-you-drive’ technology, according to a Highways England report. The recommendation was made in a feasibility study carried out by the […]

Clean Air Better Business (CABB) has launched a practical toolkit to enable local authorities, businesses and freight operators to understand what measures they can take to reduce emissions from their freight activities in the capital. Organisations are encouraged to assess […]

A series of sustainable urban transport studies will take place as part of the latest phase of the EU co-funded CIVITAS initiative. CIVITAS – which takes its name from city, vitality and sustainability – was launched in 2002 to help […]

Industry experts and top academics heading up successful urban logistics projects from across Europe will be speaking at the inaugural Freight in the City Expo this autumn. Driving down harmful emissions will be the focus of seminars in the ‘Clean’ […]

‘Cities Safer by Design’ is a global report for urban planners and policymakers that offers practical guidance for designing safer towns that can reduce traffic fatalities. More than 1.3 million people are killed in traffic crashes worldwide, making traffic fatalities […]

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) is calling for free use of the M6 Toll by HGVs following last week’s publication of the West Midlands Integrated Transport Authority Strategic Transport Plan. One of the key priorities within the plan is wider […]

The inaugural Freight in the City Expo is already attracting major industry manufacturers looking to demonstrate how fleets can be made, cleaner, safer and more efficient in their urban delivery operations. Daf, Volvo, Isuzu and Iveco will be bringing along […]

Banning HGVs in city centres during peak hours would not be the most effective way to protect cyclists and pedestrians, the Freight Transport Association (FTA) has warned. Speaking in response to reported discussions between the prime minister and the All […]